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MSNBC
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A new study of a skeleton of a member of a race of three-foot-tall ‘hobbits’ who lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of human—and that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been tortuous indeed.
It was an astoni..
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National Geographic
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Today the only place to see woolly mammoths and people side-by-side is on The Flintstones or in the movies.
But researchers are on the verge of piecing together complete genomes of long-dead species such as Neandertals and mammoths.
So now the big q..
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BBC News
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The number of species on the endangered list in Britain has almost doubled in 13 years, according to a new study.
There are now 1,149 species of plants, mammals, birds and insects, and 67 different types of habitat under threat from climate change and..
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CNN
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declassified the American crocodile as an endangered species Tuesday, saying the animal has rebounded from the edge of extinction.
The reptile remains protected under the federal Endangered Species Act even though it..
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MSNBC
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Charles Darwin could have saved himself from some of his first critics if he had remembered to include his preface in the first edition of his influential book on evolution and natural selection, "The Origin of Species." The original edition of the lan..
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Washington Post
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The world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, according to a study released today by an international group of ecologists and economists...
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BBC News
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Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea have undergone a massive decline over the last two centuries, scientists have discovered from historical records.
Some species shrunk by more than 99% over the period, mainly due to fishing.
Researchers used fishermen..
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BBC News
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Hedgehogs are very poor at dealing with traffic, researchers have found, which could help explain why the species is declining fast in some parts of the UK.
On average, they wait until a vehicle is about 17m (60ft) away before responding, and even then..
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BBC News
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More than half of the world's ocean-going sharks are at risk of extinction, a new analysis concludes.
Specialists with IUCN (formerly the World Conservation Union) found that 11 species are on the high-risk list, with five more showing signs of decline..
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BBC News
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Nations should avoid planting biofuel crops that have a high risk of becoming invasive species, a report warns.
A study by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) said only a few countries have systems in place to assess the risk or contain an out..
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BBC News
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Climate change is "significantly amplifying" the threats facing the world's bird populations, a global assessment has concluded.
The 2008 IUCN Bird Red List warns that long-term droughts and extreme weather puts additional stress on key habitats.
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BBC News
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The United States has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting due to climate change.
US government scientists predict that two-thirds of the polar bear population of 25,000 could disappear by 2050...
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BBC News
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Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.
Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%, it says.
Humans are w..
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BBC News
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The UK's only mountain dwelling species of butterfly could be wiped out in Scotland because of climate change, experts have warned.
Warmer temperatures are driving the mountain ringlet higher up hillsides in the search for cooler conditions.
Butterf..
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BBC News
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Conservationists have urged people to help frogs continue to thrive in one of their natural strongholds.
Dumfries and Galloway is home to nine different native Scottish species of amphibians and reptiles.
A new group is now being set up in the regio..
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BBC News
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A judge has told the US government to decide within weeks whether to list polar bears as an endangered species.
The decision was hailed by conservation groups which have been hounding the government on the issue for years.
The federal judge rejected..
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BBC News
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Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests.
The genetic split in Africa resulted in distinct populations that lived in isolation for as much as 100,0..
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BBC News
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A fish species, which is all female, has survived for 70,000 years without reproducing sexually, experts believe.
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh think the Amazon Molly may be employing special genetic survival "tricks" to avoid becoming ex..
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MSNBC
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Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to a report released Saturday.
The Queensland state government's State of the Environment report said the two species wer..
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BBC News
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A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China.
The nearly complete articulated skeleton was unearthed in fossil beds from north-eastern China.
The 120-million-year-old reptile had not rea..
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